Ensemble

Designer:

Nettie Rosenstein (American, 1890–1980)

Date:

1945

Culture:

American

Medium:

(a, b) silk

Credit Line:

Gift of Nettie Rosenstein, 1946

Accession Number:

C.I.46.57a, b

Not on view

Akin to Stuart Davis's urban and signage-graphic acumen is Nettie Rosenstein's enthusiasm for the electricity of advertising design, which she translated into an evening ensemble with a relaxed drape inspired by Moroccan man's garb. The ensemble has a sensibility for popular culture (graphics of Lana Turner, Duke Ellington, chop suey restaurants, etc.) that anticipates the 1960s and after.